I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.
Interpretation
Having a role model makes pursuing a career in music more attainable and less frightening for those who seek it.
In this quote, St. Vincent reflects on the importance of having a living example of success in the arts, particularly in music. She acknowledges that many aspiring musicians face fear and doubt because they may not see anyone in their family having pursued such a career. However, her own experience of having a musician in the family provided her with the reassurance and belief that a career in music was possible for her too.
In practice
This quote could inspire young musicians during a graduation speech, emphasizing the importance of role models.
It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in conformity with their wishes; to go on quietly, and to suffer nothing for the love of God. Yes, consider it certain that a person or a Congregation that does not suffer and is applauded by all the world is near a fall.
Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.
It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.
Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other_x000D_ so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community_x000D_ binds it indissolubly to God.
We ought to deal kindly with all, and to manifest those qualities which spring naturally from a heart tender and full of Christian charity; such as affability, love and humility. These virtues serve wonderfully to gain the hearts of men, and to encourage them to embrace things that are more repugnant to nature.
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.
This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
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For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And I've always been one to avoid my job.
Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
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